Indoor air environments for people are recently being observed because the time we spend inside the house or a building throughout the day has been extended during the present circumstances. This is why formaldehyde and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are regulated, which can cause Sick Building Syndrome (SBS). There might be other VOCs not regulated by law in newly built collective housing, however, in order to compensate for the reduced concentration of regulated VOCs such as benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, xylene, and styrene. In this study, the concentration of unregulated VOCs in newly built collective housing structures located in the Seoul Special City was researched to find potential indoor hazards for citizens and to prepare basic data for further research.

Cu2ZnSn(S,Se)4(CZTSSe) thin film solar cells areone of the most promising candidates for photovoltaic devices due to their earth-abundant composition, high absorption coefficient and appropriate band gap. The sputtering process is the main challenge to achieving high efficiency of CZTSSe solar cells for industrialization. In this study, we fabricated CZTSSe absorbers on Mo coated soda lime glass using different pressures during the annealing process. As an environmental strategy, the annealing process is performed with S and Se powder, without any toxic H2Se and/or H2S gases. Because CZTSSe thin films have a very narrow stable phase region, it is important to control the condition of the annealing process to achieve high efficiency of the solar cell. To identify the effect of process pressure during the sulfo-selenization, we experiment with varying initial pressure from 600 Torr to 800 Torr. We fabricate a CZTSSe thin film solar cell with 8.24 % efficiency, with 435 mV for open circuit voltage(VOC) and 36.98 mA/cm2 for short circuit current density(JSC), under a highest process pressure of 800 Torr.

It is well known that lymph node metastasis is a major prognostic factor in patients with oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC). 30-40% of patients with OSCC have already undergone regional metastasis at diagnosis. The survival rate of patients with metastasis is reduced by more than 50%. Therefore, prevention and early detection of metastasis are very important to increase the survival rate of patients. Many investigators have studied the molecular mechanism of metastasis and tried to develop the molecules to inhibit any step of metastatic cascade. Among those molecules, an interest in the metastasis suppressor gene has been increasing. Expression of metastasis suppressor KiSS-1 has shown to be significantly related to poor clinical outcome and worse survival rate of patient in various malignancies of different organs. In addition, our previous study in OSCC also revealed that downregulation of KiSS-1 expression correlated with the presence of cervical lymph node metastasis, one part of tumor progression. Therefore, further investigation was needed to identify the molecular function of KiSS-1 using OSCC cell line and to evaluate the possibility of KiSS-1 as a new therapeutic target.

본 실험에서는 조류 제거 및 농축을 위해 Silicon Carbide(SiC) 재질의 침지형 세라믹막을 적용하여 운전 특성을 평가하고자 하였다. SiC 세라믹막은 막표면이 음전하를 띄어 음전하를 띄는 조류 제거에 적용이 가능하고 고유량으로 역세척(Backwashing)을 할 수 있어 고농도의 조류 농축시에도 적용이 가능하다. 역세척 유량과 역세척 시간, 역세척수 수온, 역세척수에 차아염소산나트륨 주입 유무, 여과/역세시 air scrubbing 유량에 따라 역세척 효율을 평가하였으며 Jar test를 통해 선정한 농도로 응집제 주입 유무에 따라 운전 특성을 비교하였다. 또한 동일한 조건에서 세라믹막과 유기막의 운전 특성과 비교하였다. 본 연구는 환경부의 “환경정책기반공공기술개발사업”으로 지원받은 과제입니다.

본 실험에서는 대청호에서 발생한 남조류를 대상으로 SiC(Silicon carbide) 평막의 최적 운전조건을 도출하고자 하였다. 이를 위해 원수 농도에 따른 투과플럭스, 응집제 주입 조건, Air scrubbing 조건, 역세척(Backwashing) 유량 및 시간, 여과 및 역세척 시간, 응집제 종류 및 주입 농도 등에 대해 안정적으로 운전이 가능한 최적 조건을 도출하였다. 특히, 저농도의 응집제 주입에도 음전하를 띄는 조류 입자들과 전기적으로 중화를 일으켜서 생성된 미세 플럭들이 SiC 평막의 막표면에서 투수성을 증가시킨 것으로 사료된다. 이를 통해 도출된 설계인자로 제작한 Pilot Plant를 조류 제거시 적용하고자 한다. 본 연구는 환경부의 “환경정책기반공공기술개발사업”으로 지원받은 과제입니다.

본 실험에서는 실제 원수와 모사 원수를 이용하여 유기막(PES, PVDF 및 PTFE)을 이용하여 재질에 따른 막오염 특성을 분석하고자 하였다. 먼저 원수를 운전압력 1kgf/cm2로 여과하였다. 재질별 소요된 여과 시간은 약 5분, 약 13분, 약 17분으로 각각 나타났다. 또한 모사 원수 실험을 진행하였고, 원수 실험과 동일한 결과를 나타냈다. Jucker 와 Clark(1994)에 따르면 소수성 재질의 막이 유기물 흡착에 의한 Flux 감소가 크다고 보고하였고, 본 실험에서도 소수성 재질의 막이 높은 Flux 감소율을 나타났다. 실험 결과를 통해 막 재질 특성이 조류 유입에 따른 Flux 감소율에 영향을 미치는 것을 확인하였다. 본 연구는 환경부의 “환경정책기반공공기술개발사업”으로 지원받은 과제입니다.

폴리벤즈이미다졸(PBI)는 현재 상용 고분자들 중에서 가장 내열성이 좋은 이종고리화합물이다. 우수한 기계적, 화학적 물성 때문에 해당 고분자는 나노공학, 전기공학, 광학, 재료공학과 같은 분야 외에도 쓰임새가 다양하다. 본 연구는 폴리벤즈이미다졸 지지체를 제조하기 위하여 전기방사를 이용하였다. PBI 방사 용액의 용매로서 DMAc를 사용하였고, LiCl은 안정제로써 사용하였다. 또한 다양한 전기방사의 조건을 변화시킴에 따라 나타나는 모폴로지를 관찰하고자 하였다. 또한, DBX를 이용한 가교반응을 통하여 보다 화학적으로 강화된 필름을 제조하였다. 나노 섬유의 화학 구조와 성분은 FT-IR와 DSC를 통해 확인하였다. 전기방사 섬유의 모폴로지는 SEM을 통해 확인하였다.

Cu2ZnSn(S,Se)4 (CZTSSe) films were prepared on Mo coated soda lime glass substrates by sulfo-selenization of sputtered stacked Zn-Sn-Cu(CZT) precursor films. The precursor was dried in a capped state with aqueous NaOH solution. The CZT precursor films were sulfo-selenized in the S + Se vapor atmosphere. Sodium was doped during the sulfo-selenization treatment. The effect of sodium doping on the structural and electrical properties of the CZTSSe thin films were studied using FE-SEM(field-emission scanning electron microscopy), XRD(X-ray diffraction), XRF(X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy), dark current, SIMS(secondary ion mass spectrometry), conversion efficiency. The XRD, XRF, FE-SEM, Dark current, SIMS and cell efficiency results indicated that the properties of sulfo-selenized CZTSSe thin films were strongly related to the sodium doping. Further detailed analysis and discussion for effect of sodium doping on the properties CZTSSe thin films will be discussed.

Recently, interest in the development of alternative water resources has been increasing rapidly due to environmental pollution and depletion of water resources. In particular, seawater desalination has been attracting the most attention as alternative water resources. As seawater desalination consumes a large amount of energy due to high operating pressure, many researches have been conducted to improve energy efficiency such as energy recovery device (ERD). Consequently, this study aims to compare the energy efficiency of RO process according to ERD of isobaric type which is applied in scientific control pilot plant process of each 100 m3/day scale based on actual RO product water. As a result, it was confirmed that efficiency, mixing rate, and permeate conductivity were different depending on the size of the apparatus even though the same principle of the ERD was applied. It is believed that this is caused by the difference in cross-sectional area of the contacted portion for pressure transfer inside the ERD. Therefore, further study is needed to confirm the optimum conditions what is applicable to the actual process considering the correlation with other factors as well as the factors obtained from the previous experiments.

The water spider (Argyroneta aquatica), a rare member of its species, is one of the few insects known to live under water all over the world. In Korea, the water spider can be found only in the Eundae-ri, Yeoncheon, Gyeonggi province, where they are designated as a natural monument. However, loss of habitat is obvious, as the Eundae-ri wetland undergoes hydrarch succession. Loss of habitat has a direct impact on the water spider population. Thus protective measures for the water spider are needed to preserve the water spider habitat. In this study, a sweeping and visual survey of insect species was conducted in the water spider habitat from May to September 2015. The characteristics of each one of the different insect species and the community features were analyzed in this study. A total of 3,929 insects representing 276 species from 13 orders collected for the analysis. The most frequently collected insects from the Order Hemiptera represented 24.2% of total species and 82.3% of the total number of insects. Community analyses showed dominance, diversity, evenness, and richness indices of 0.23, 2.27, 0.41, and 31.2, respectively. Compared with the previous survey data, these results showed that reduction of the spider’s wetland habitat caused the most commonly collected insects to adapt and spread to the surrounding terrestrial environment.

Compared to the early 2000s, the number of tourists in Korea has increased significantly. Approximately 40 million tourists visit Korea each year. In line with this trend, various technologies for developing tourism content have reached a very high level. Therefore, adding experience-oriented AR (Augmented Reality) game based on LBS (Location-Based System) to existing tourist contents will create a new tourism content platform that can give new experience to tourists . This paper proposes a tourism contents platform based on Suwon Hwaseong Fortress which can give such a new experience.

In this paper, we investigate the characteristics of membrane fouling caused by water temperature in the Membrane bioreactor(MBR) process and try to derive the membrane fouling control by chemical enhanced backwashing(CEB). The extracellular polymeric substances(EPS) concentration was analyzed according to the water temperature in the MBR, and the membrane fouling characteristics were investigated according to the conditions, with sludge & without sludge, through a lab-scale reactor. As shown in the existing literature the fouling resistance rate was increased within sludge with the water temperature was lowered. However, in the lab-scale test using the synthetic wastewater, the fouling resistance increased with the water temperature. This is because that the protein of the EPS was more easily adsorbed on the membrane surface due to the increase of entropy due to the structural rearrangement of the protein inside the protein as the water temperature increases. In order to control membrane fouling, we tried to derive the cleaning characteristics of CEB by using sodium hypochlorite(NaOCl). We selected the condition with the chemicals and the retention time, and the higher the water temperature and the chemical concentration are the higher the efficiencies. It is considered that the increasing temperature accelerated the chemical reaction such as protein peptide binding and hydrolysis, so that the attached proteinaceous structure was dissolved and the frequency of the reaction collision with the protein with the chemical agent becomes higher. These results suggest that the MBRs operation focus on the fouling control of cake layer on membrane surface in low temperatures. On the other hand, the higher the water temperature is the more the operation strategies of fouling control by soluble EPS adsorption are needed.

전해질막을 사용하는 알칼라인 연료전지는 최근 들어서 시스템 구성이 비슷하고 전해질막의 종류만 다른 기존의 양이온 교환막 연료전지를 대체할 수 있을 것으로 기대를 모으고 있다. 특히, 알칼라인 연료전지에서는 비백금계 저가 촉매가 사용 가능하여 많은 연구들이 진행되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 이러한 알칼라인 연료전지 시스템에 적용하기 위한 고성능, 고내 구성 음이온 교환막을 제조하기 위하여, 두 종류의 다공성 지지체인 폴리벤조옥사졸 지지체와 폴리에틸렌 지지체에 Fumion FAA 이오노머를 함침시켜, 기존의 Fumion 시리즈의 막보다 우수한 기계적 강도를 가지면서 높은 이온전도도를 유지할 수 있는 함침막을 제조하고자 하였다. 이를 통하여 최종적으로 지지체-함침막이 성공적으로 제조되었고, 이온 전도도와 기계적 특성이 지지체의 성질에 따라 서로 다른 결과를 보여 주었다. PE 지지체에 Fumion 이오노머를 함침시킨 함침막에서는 우수 한 기계적 특성이 얻어졌지만, 이온전도도는 감소하였으며 특히 높은 온도에서 성능감소가 더욱 증가하였다. 반면에 PBO 지 지체에 Fumion 이오노머를 함침 시킨 경우에는 PBO의 높은 염기성으로 인하여 함침 후에 높은 이온 전도도를 보였지만, Fumion-PE막에 비하여 상대적으로 낮은 기계적 특성을 나타내었다. 결과적으로 지지체-함침막 제조 시 알칼라인 연료전지의 운전조건에 따라 지지체의 특성을 충분히 고려하여 연구를 진행할 필요가 있다는 결론을 얻었다.

This study applied microbubbles to reduce membrane fouling in wastewater reuse membrane processes, evaluated and compared the transmembrane pressure with or without the application of microbubbles and the cleaning efficiency with the application of aeration and microbubbles. In addition, this study analyzed foulants removed from the membrane surface. Changes in the transmembrane pressure of membranes with the presence or absence of microbubbles were observed. As a result, transmembrane pressure (TMP) increasing rate decreased twofold when applying microbubbles to realize stable operations. This study compared and evaluated cleaning efficiency applying aeration and microbubbles. As a result, the cleaning efficiency was 5% higher on average when applying microbubbles. In turbidity and total organic carbon (TOC), foulants were discharged when applying microbubbles twice as much as applying aeration. It is thought that particulate foulants precipitated on the membrane surface were more likely to desorb because the adhesion between the membrane surface and particle was weakened by microbubbles. Therefore, it is considered possible to effectively control membrane fouling because of the increase in cleaning efficiency when applying microbubbles to wastewater reuse membrane processes.

Microfiltration (MF) and Ultrafiltration (UF) membrane processes capable of producing highly purified water have been extensively applied as a pretreatment process in the wastewater reuse field with the improvement of membrane properties and resistance, development of operating protocols, and improvement of technologies of backwashing and physicochemical cleaning, and improvement of scale and antifoulants. However, despite of the development of membrane production and process technologies, fouling still remains unresolved. This study confirmed that foulants such as polysaccharides, proteins and humic substances existed in final treated effluent (secondary effluent) by fluorescence excitation emission matrix (FEEM) and fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) analysis. In addition, when constructing ozone oxidation and coagulation processes as a hybrid process, the removal efficiency was 5.8%, 6.9%, 5.9%, and 28.2% higher than that of the single process using coagulation in turbidity, color, dissolved organic carbon (DOC), and UV254, respectively. The reversible and irreversible resistances in applying the hybrid process consisting of ozone oxidation and coagulation processes were lower than those in applying ozone oxidation and coagulation processes separately in UF membrane process. Therefore, it is considered possible to apply ozonation/coagulation as a pretreatment process for stable wastewater reuse by and then contributing to the reduction of fouling when calculating the optimal conditions for ozone oxidation and coagulation and then to applying them to membrane processes.